Improvement in stave baskets



E. WHEELER.`

Stava-Basket.

Patented July 6, |875.

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u WITN ESSS ATTORNEYS NFETERS. PHUTOLITHOGRAPHEH. WASHINGTON. D C,

N UNITED I STATES f PATENT OFFICE.

ROSCOE B. WHEELER, OF NILES, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF HIS RIGHT TO HENRY LARDNER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN sTAve BASKETS.

Specification ftrmirg part of Letters Patent No. 165,285, dated July 6, 1875 application led January 23, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, RoscoE B. WHEELER, of the city of Niles, county ot' Berrien and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stave Baskets, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention relates to the construction of stave baskets; and consists in applying a supplemental bottom to a basket constructed with two series of staves, all of which are tapered to a point at the lower end, and meet point to point' at the 'center of the basketbottom; also,v in a large-headed nail driven at the points of both series of the staves, and through the supplemental bottom; also, in the staple fastening by means of which an inner wire hoop and an outer Wooden hoop are secured to the body of the basket.

The accompanying drawing forms a part of this specification, and shows in Figure l a .top view of a device embodying my invention; and Fig. 2 shows a vertical transverse sectional view of the same, in which- A represents the staves ot' both series, all of which are formed after one pattern, and are tapering their entire length, and terminate in a sharp point at one end. B represents the supplemental bottom. This is made of a thin circular board about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, and sufficiently wide to cover the entire bottom of the basket. To construct this basket the supplemental bottom B is rst placed in a recess prepared for it in the center of a suitable table or'a roundtopped stand, so as to come iiush with the surface of said table. The staves A are then placed ...on the table, edge to edge at the points, with their pointed ends meetingat the center of the supplemental bottom, a sufcient number being used (which will depend upon their width) to ll the circle of the bottom of the basket. This constitutes the outer series. A second series ot' such staves are now employed, and are placed in the same order as the first-described series, and breaking joints with them. C represents a largeheaded or'trunk nail. This nail is driven through the center of the supplemental bottom` at the point where all the staves meet;

plemental bottom, so that When nails are driven through this hoop to fasten it to the basket and said bottom, they will pass through said supplemental bottom far enough from the outer edge to take a substantial hold and not be liable to split. This hoop is applied to the inner side of the basket-bottom, concentric with the center of the supplemental bottom, and the said nails are driven in such a manner as to avoid the joints between the staves in either series, care being taken to nail through all the staves and through the supplemental bottom, and clinch the nails on the outside. The basketis now formed on a suitable former, and provided with the usual top rim, hoop, and handles, in the usual manner, and need not be described here. But I attach to the body of the basket, at a point about midway of its height, an inner wire hoop, F, and an outer wooden hoop, G, by means of wire staples E, driven outside of the wire hoop, through the staves and Wooden hoop, and clinched. I use, also, a staple to connect the hooked ends of the wire hoop F.

By the employment of an interior supporting wire hoop, F, less space is taken up in the interior of the basket than when a thicker` Wooden hoop is employed, and the construction is lighter, and articles placed in the basketare not so liable to be injured by Contact with the wooden hoop.

I am aware that a basket has heretofore been constructed of two thicknesses ot' stavesor splints, the outer thickness or covering being composed of splints which extend from side to side of the basket beneath the bottom,

double series of tapering staves, united by the' outer hoop G, the inner wire hoop F, and

staples E, and meeting point 'to point, and lying flat on the bottom board Within their bends, the inside hoop D, and the center nail (J, having a large head covering all the stave- `poin ts, and-'securing the same' in their relation to each. other and to the bottom board, as shown and described.

ROSCOE B. VHEELER.

Witnesses:

CLEMENT L. BARRON, S. H. WHEELER. 

